From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24452 invoked by uid 1002); 11 Apr 2003 05:49:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 25675 invoked from network); 11 Apr 2003 05:49:38 -0000 Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 22:48:40 -0700 From: "C. Brewer" To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030410224840.15ae7f67.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> In-Reply-To: <20030410115023.209d65d5.xwred1@xwredwing.net> References: <200304100013.30307.gentoo@mchsi.com> <20030410115023.209d65d5.xwred1@xwredwing.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11claws Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="=.94y9n9UNfEov/p" Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Binary release of gentoo X-Archives-Salt: 3d5e4060-e416-4543-8df9-a421be4e14cc X-Archives-Hash: 4bbcecdca2a8e5595060148180e0f384 --=.94y9n9UNfEov/p Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Matt Thrailkill wrote: >If ebuild maintainers have to send in a standardized binary pkg as well, might >compel them to craft better ebuilds and so on. Not to rock the boat, but what if ebuild maintainers, who manage so many packages that they are consistently putting out a call for help, decided maintaining them wasn't worth that extra time and resources? And what about the anti-devs? non-devs? such as myself and quite a few other people, who submit ebuilds or changes to ebuilds, whose CFLAGS might be less than desirable for you? And what is standard? i386? higher? Debian and RedHat provide i386 packages, probably similar with *bsd's, Mandrake doesn't do less than i586 now, so where is the standard at? Who gets left in the cold? As a side note to devs, you could get more help with a lower package load. I honestly don't have the time for a full category to maintain, but hell, I already unofficially watch six or eight packages now, wouldn't bother me to do it officially:P Anyways, to put up my reasonable counter offer, it might be easier to have like a big list where people can say "These are my build and USE flags, and these are what packages I am willing to send people binaries of if they're interested", and then have like a volunteer effort of binary swapping between people. Just a general idea, I'm not gonna work out the logistics of it:) -- Chuck Brewer Registered Linux User #284015 Get my gpg public key at pgp.mit.edu!! Encrypted e-mail preferred. --=.94y9n9UNfEov/p Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+llc84cYuSvLqsAoRAlKPAJ4k9zkpN9JUQja01B7xsAxUCiz/+QCfTHtm mo0Pf7YgrUoGL0boH8UlL2I= =bEii -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.94y9n9UNfEov/p--